Conestoga
[kon-uh-stoh-guh, kon-] /ˈkɒn əˈstoʊ gə, ˌkɒn-/
noun
1.
a large, heavy, broad-wheeled covered wagon, used especially for transporting pioneers and freight across North America during the early westward migration.
/ˌkɒnɪˈstəʊɡə/
noun
1.
(US & Canadian) a large heavy horse-drawn covered wagon used in the 19th century
1690s, name of an Indian tribe in southcentral Pennsylvania, probably from some Iroquoian language and sometimes said to mean “people of the cabin pole;” later a place in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. A characteristic type of covered wagon, called Conestoga wagon, was built there from 1750 (about three years before the last of the Conestoga Indians were massacred), but it already was an established term, as the first reference is to the name of a Philadelphia tavern, and probably originally meant the type of wagon farmers used on the road from the city to Conestoga. Also a breed of horses (1824) and a type of boot and cigar (see stogie).
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